Frank P. Miller Paper Co. v. York Coated Paper Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 16, March T., 1907, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. York Co., Aug. T., 1906, No. 3, dismissing bill in equity in case of Frank P. Miller Paper Company v. the York Coated Paper Company et al. Bill in equity to enforce liability of directors for corporate debts in excess of capital of a corporation actually paid in.
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Appeal, No. 16, March T., 1907, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. York Co., Aug. T., 1906, No. 3, dismissing bill in equity in case of Frank P. Miller Paper Company v. the York Coated Paper Company et al. Bill in equity to enforce liability of directors for corporate debts in excess of capital of a corporation actually paid in. Wanner, P. J., filed the following opinion: Plaintiff’s bill seeks to hold the directors of the York Coated Paper Company individually liable, under the provisions of the Act of April 29, 1871, P. L. 73, in the sum of $1,587, for an excess of corporate indebtedness…
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Head, J.,
The plaintiff brings this bill against a manufacturing corporation, created under the act of 1874, and a number of individuals, its directors, to compel the payment, by the latter, *319of certain debts contracted by the corporation for which, it is alleged, the directors have become personally liable under the provisions of clause 6 of sec. 39 of said act.
To the whole of this bill the defendants demurred assigning as causes of demurrer a number of alleged defects, both of form and substance in the bill, and, the demurrer having been sustained, the plaintiff took this appeal.…
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